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Just a note. You don't pay income taxes on stocks. You pay capital gains taxes.

> Are taxpayers funding the government? Yes. It certainly isn't the billionaires as all their wealth wouldn't as the OP noted. > Last year, federal tax revenues were $3 trillion le…

Wrong. Business is about relationships. Be competent and do what is minimally required. Do extra networking or befriending your manager/boss/etc. People who get ahead build relatio…

> I sincerely doubt you would, since I asked you for the citation and we're discussing moderation in this thread. I will if I get assurances that I will not be penalized. > In the …

This is so sad. Stop trying to pretend you are a mod. > "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.…

> If the US confiscated all of the wealth of the billionaires in the US (which would absolutely wreck the economy as well as that wealth, since much of that their wealth is tied up…

> At some point public interest turned against cigarettes too despite moneyed interests being in favor of poisoning millions... Wrong again. The monied interests turned against smo…

Considering MAD existed and most nukes would have been dropped on the US and USSR, not Germany, I don't think that's the issue. We and the russians had far more to worry about than…

Maybe it's a temporal vs spatial vs cardinal issue. I'm sitting "between or in between" two people ( open boundary or exclusive or non-inclusive ). Seems spatial is always open bou…

> There is no assertion in my post that the nazis invented unethical medical experimentation which would be absurd. But you asserted it's why we stopped. So your logic is we were o…

> The only time it really stops working is if people start treating it as doctrine, and demanding that you accept it on faith, and take any questions as evidence that you are an en…

The nazis didn't invent human experimentation. Human experimentation happened in the US before the nazis. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/cruel-medica... Also, we c…

> Is there any evidence this is actually true? Apple stock hasn't cratered so the markets don't think much of this story. > Literally every year at this time, Bloomberg or the WSJ …

> could you provide a link to an example? I was going to link to an example but removed it before posting because I'd get in trouble. It's the "chilling effect" of censorship. You …

So the definition of "nonconsenting prisoners" is "killing a person without their consent...". That makes every organ transplantation of prisoners "nonconsenting" since nobody cons…

It's so strange to see the same people denouncing censorship everywhere celebrating censorship here. I know, I know. Moderation isn't censorship. Moderation is censorship you agree…

In other words: Ignorance is bliss.

> Climate science is politicized because moneyed interests have a strong incentive to continue to deny the science and conservative individuals have both a shared financial interes…

So that's what dinosaur tastes like.

> You believing or agreeing that climate change is an existential risk to humanity makes no difference to the evidence we have. It's not me "believing", it's no sane person believe…

> Credit where credit is due, we all WISH nix had something like PowerShell. Who is "we". I've worked exclusively on a windows stack so used powershell on the job. But at home, I u…

As others have pointed out in this thread, why doesn't india create their own tiktok or instagram instead? Just clone them if they can't come up with something new. Neither instagr…

> The difference is of course Consequentialism. Which is just rationalization to justify something you agree with. > If you believe that your actions that will contribute to death …

And of course this would affect all their properties including search. There was a time, long ago, when we expected objectivity from google in search, etc. Those days are long gone…

"This means that we will support Republicans, Democrats, and Independents - as well as candidates identifying themselves as Forward Party members." It's not a party. It's more of a…